Hacker v.s. Cracker, two common terms greatly mis-used by the
mainstream media. This article appeared in the April 1995 issue
of Technology Review.[Note:This article is
no longer available online at techreview.com]

Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham.
«Hacking and painting have a lot in
common. In fact, of all the different types of people I've
known, hackers and painters are among the most
alike.» [Maciej Ceglowski wrote a critique
about this essay.]

Multi-language program
hack, Jeremy Todd Dilatush. A single
program that will print "Hello world!" when compiled with
gcc, or run through the Perl, Tcl,
and/or sh interpreters.

Unix Recovery Legend,
Mario Wolczko. What do you do when root accidently types "rm -rf /"? a) Panic and re-boot the
workstation; b) Do (a), then cry like a little girl when that
doesn't work; c) Read this post.

HAKMEM AI Memo 239: the legendary collection of neat mathematical
and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and
elsewhere. ("HAKMEM", is a 6-letterism for `hacks memo'.)

«Richard M. Stallman, Linus Thorvalds [sic],
and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on the
computerized world was the greatest.

Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in
the world!"Thorvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have
programmed the best operating system in the world!"Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."

Edsger
W. Dijkstra, 1930 - 2002«May, in
spite of all distractions generated by technology, all of you
succeed in turning information into knowledge, knowledge into
understanding, and understanding into wisdom.»

GNU
Friends,A community site for friends of the GNU
project. Good interviews.